Having some network issues...

My airport connection seems to be being dropped very once in a while.
I don't know if its due to my D-Link-655 or if its my Mac or the fact
that there are too many wireless lans on my block...
I did however notice these error messages in my log and was wondering
if anyone knew what they were or if there is a more appropriate news
group to post this question in.

Nov 23 17:39:27 bigmac netinfod local[33]: Cannot send multicall
packet to 139.48.44.25: Host is down
Nov 23 17:39:27 bigmac netinfod local[33]: Cannot send multicall
packet to 139.48.44.25: Host is down
Nov 23 17:39:40 bigmac mDNSResponder: NOTE: Wide-Area Service
Discovery disabled to avoid crashing defective DNS relay 192.168.0.1.

192.168.0.1 is my D-Link Wireless router.

In article
<59c5e50d-934d-4889-9cc1-(E-Mail Removed)>,
SpreadTooThin <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> My airport connection seems to be being dropped very once in a while.
> I don't know if its due to my D-Link-655 or if its my Mac or the fact
> that there are too many wireless lans on my block...
> I did however notice these error messages in my log and was wondering
> if anyone knew what they were or if there is a more appropriate news
> group to post this question in.
>
> Nov 23 17:39:27 bigmac netinfod local[33]: Cannot send multicall
> packet to 139.48.44.25: Host is down
> Nov 23 17:39:27 bigmac netinfod local[33]: Cannot send multicall
> packet to 139.48.44.25: Host is down
> Nov 23 17:39:40 bigmac mDNSResponder: NOTE: Wide-Area Service
> Discovery disabled to avoid crashing defective DNS relay 192.168.0.1.
>
> 192.168.0.1 is my D-Link Wireless router.

I've heard nothing but Bad Stuff(tm) about DLINK products in this news
group. Specifically, that BonJour doesn't seem to work on it and that
it's manufacturer HARDCODED their ntpd to use a Scandinavian ntp server,
thereby bringing that system to it's knees.

If you have another wireless router, why not try swapping out the DLINK
and see if you get better results? If you don't, borrow one.

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Michael Vilain <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> In article
> <59c5e50d-934d-4889-9cc1-(E-Mail Removed)>,
> SpreadTooThin <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> > My airport connection seems to be being dropped very once in a while.
> > I don't know if its due to my D-Link-655...

> I've heard nothing but Bad Stuff(tm) about DLINK products in this news
> group. Specifically, that BonJour doesn't seem to work on it and that
> it's manufacturer HARDCODED their ntpd to use a Scandinavian ntp server,
> thereby bringing that system to it's knees.

The "nothing" must be an overstatement (or perhaps you overlooked the
good stuff said) because I'm sure I've said good stuff about my
DLINK-655... which I'm quite pleased with, and which I'm connected
through right now. That and I'm also happy with an older D-link router
that I moved to the office.

I've never once had a problem with either of my DLINK routers. My
Netgear and Linksys ones, on the other hand...

Actually, I'm still using my old Netgear as a wireless access point at
work. That part of it still seems to work, but it can't reliably
maintain a conection on its WAN port. I just completely gave up on their
customer support; it was less hassle to just buy a different router, in
spite of the fact that the Netgear was under warrantee.

The Linksys I just threw out....along with an AirLink that I inherited
from the former business owners. I wasted far too much of my time trying
to debug the problems cause by that cheap piece of junk AirLink.
Unfortunately, the symptoms were not leading me to suspect the router
because lots of things worked through it just fine. FileMaker just
wouldn't maintain a connection to the remote server site that I needed.
It was an act of desparation to swap out the router. I didn't really
think that would fix things... but I had changed darn near everything
else except for my business ISP, which would have been a bother. Nary a
problem since I put in the DLINK.

Admitedly, I'm not sure that I've used the Bonjour stuff on the wireless
side of my DLINK-655 (though it seems fine on the wired side), and I
hadn't heard of the ntpd issue.

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Michael Vilain wrote:
> In article
> <59c5e50d-934d-4889-9cc1-(E-Mail Removed)>,
> SpreadTooThin <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> My airport connection seems to be being dropped very once in a while.
>> I don't know if its due to my D-Link-655 or if its my Mac or the fact
>> that there are too many wireless lans on my block...
>> I did however notice these error messages in my log and was wondering
>> if anyone knew what they were or if there is a more appropriate news
>> group to post this question in.
>>
>> Nov 23 17:39:27 bigmac netinfod local[33]: Cannot send multicall
>> packet to 139.48.44.25: Host is down
>> Nov 23 17:39:27 bigmac netinfod local[33]: Cannot send multicall
>> packet to 139.48.44.25: Host is down
>> Nov 23 17:39:40 bigmac mDNSResponder: NOTE: Wide-Area Service
>> Discovery disabled to avoid crashing defective DNS relay 192.168.0.1.
>>
>> 192.168.0.1 is my D-Link Wireless router.
>
> I've heard nothing but Bad Stuff(tm) about DLINK products in this news
> group. Specifically, that BonJour doesn't seem to work on it and that
> it's manufacturer HARDCODED their ntpd to use a Scandinavian ntp server,
> thereby bringing that system to it's knees.
>

That's hilarious. I'm pretty sure you're talking about this:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/200...wisconsin.html

It was Netgear and it was the U of W. Funny how these legends take on a
life of their own.

Greg

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
"G.T." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Michael Vilain wrote:
> > In article
> > <59c5e50d-934d-4889-9cc1-(E-Mail Removed)>,
> > SpreadTooThin <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> >
> >> My airport connection seems to be being dropped very once in a while.
> >> I don't know if its due to my D-Link-655 or if its my Mac or the fact
> >> that there are too many wireless lans on my block...
> >> I did however notice these error messages in my log and was wondering
> >> if anyone knew what they were or if there is a more appropriate news
> >> group to post this question in.
> >>
> >> Nov 23 17:39:27 bigmac netinfod local[33]: Cannot send multicall
> >> packet to 139.48.44.25: Host is down
> >> Nov 23 17:39:27 bigmac netinfod local[33]: Cannot send multicall
> >> packet to 139.48.44.25: Host is down
> >> Nov 23 17:39:40 bigmac mDNSResponder: NOTE: Wide-Area Service
> >> Discovery disabled to avoid crashing defective DNS relay 192.168.0.1.
> >>
> >> 192.168.0.1 is my D-Link Wireless router.
> >
> > I've heard nothing but Bad Stuff(tm) about DLINK products in this news
> > group. Specifically, that BonJour doesn't seem to work on it and that
> > it's manufacturer HARDCODED their ntpd to use a Scandinavian ntp server,
> > thereby bringing that system to it's knees.
> >
>
> That's hilarious. I'm pretty sure you're talking about this:
> http://www.networkworld.com/news/200...wisconsin.html
>
> It was Netgear and it was the U of W. Funny how these legends take on a
> life of their own.
>
> Greg

Yep, I remember reading about that Netgear blunder when it happened.
That was pretty funny! : )

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In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, "G.T." <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
> Michael Vilain wrote:
> > I've heard nothing but Bad Stuff(tm) about DLINK products in this news
> > group. Specifically, that BonJour doesn't seem to work on it and that
> > it's manufacturer HARDCODED their ntpd to use a Scandinavian ntp server,
> > thereby bringing that system to it's knees.
>
> That's hilarious. I'm pretty sure you're talking about this:
> http://www.networkworld.com/news/200...wisconsin.html
>
> It was Netgear and it was the U of W. Funny how these legends take on a
> life of their own.

Especially when those legends are factual.

The gross ignorance of commercial manufacturers seems to be
unlimited, but I would guess that it's more than likely the D-Link
reference was to the incident that concluded with this denouement:

< http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/dlink/ >

I believe that the final agreement included removal of most of the
posted documentation by the NTP operator, but there is some history
at:

< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTP_van...l-Henning_Kamp >

and a copy of the original public plaint at:

< http://net127.com/2006/04/07/open-le...ntp-vandalism/ >

> Greg

- dmw

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In <(E-Mail Removed)>, G.T. wrote:

> Michael Vilain wrote:

>> I've heard nothing but Bad Stuff(tm) about DLINK products in this news
>> group. Specifically, that BonJour doesn't seem to work on it and that it's
>> manufacturer HARDCODED their ntpd to use a Scandinavian ntp server, thereby
>> bringing that system to it's knees.
>>
>
> That's hilarious. I'm pretty sure you're talking about this:
> http://www.networkworld.com/news/200...wisconsin.html
>
> It was Netgear and it was the U of W. Funny how these legends take on a
> life of their own.

The D-Link ntp configuration story is true as well.

Anyway, for those of you with static IP addresses, you may wish to
contribute to the NTP pool project. See

http://www.pool.ntp.org/

for details.

-j

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http://improve-usenet.org/

All of which leaves me where?

In article
<27e73a02-6a80-49d2-b566-(E-Mail Removed)>,
SpreadTooThin <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> All of which leaves me where?

All of what?

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On Nov 25, 12:50 pm, Jolly Roger <jollyro...@pobox.com> wrote:
> In article
> <27e73a02-6a80-49d2-b566-ac126863c...@e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
>
> SpreadTooThin <bjobrie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > All of which leaves me where?
>
> All of what?
>

I don't see how any of this pertains to my original question.